On terrible growing practices

My ex-employer caused social isolation.

I'm somewhat of an expert on this, you see: I was their best salesman.

I have it on good authority that it's up to 20.

20 = u

u is the last generation.

u is not the one I want to smoking/consuming.

26 - u = 6

3/29 Edit: Despite the chaos of the previous lines, there is in fact a logic to them. I won't explain it further because I'm not really sure why I'm sharing these lines, but there is a logic.

It's 2am as I write this, and my chamomile tea is finished brewing. I will go pick up the plate that is covering the teacup, and my tea will be warm. It will be good to drink this before bed, because I've had it before and it helped me get a bare minimum of two hours of sleep.

The moon is to my right. I know because I went for a walk less than an hour ago and it was there, above the housetops and the condos and the firestation and the pumping station and the stars I saw were particularly bright because there were only two of them visible nearby the moon.

Nearby the moon is a two dimensional plane. Because I don't think the stars are nearby the moon.

The moon might no longer be to my right, because I've been writing for what feels like minutes and I don't usually feel that way; but at 2 A.M., I'm usually fast asleep.

I feel like going to bed; but I cannot. I cannot, because my sleep routine is completely upside down from the lack of nature.

A Bitcoin exposé

21 million Bitcoin.

Okay; fine.

I get that.

... but why quit asking why because of it?

P.S. I'm stressed out; why does it matter that there are 20 million or 21 million, ultimately.

P.P.S. Oui, Bitcoin est à 72 milles de dollars américain, approximativement au moment où j'écris ces mots. Mais mon capital n'augmente pas aussi vite que je le voudrais.

Pourquoi?

Parce-que je suis dans le système fiat, le système "pas tes clés; pas ton crypto.", et parce-que mon cerveau mathématique se fait endommager souvent par la malbouffe et ma colère intérieure.

A Paramore brief

For a self-described Paramore superfan, I sure don't write about them often or with great depth, often linking their music here and there but never doing a deep dive into why I love them so much. I say this... but if you've been here for a while, you might have caught one such deep dive a while back.

Noncomprehensive list of things that (slightly) annoy me

Alternative title: some pet peeves and some really annoying shiz

Some are more niche than others. In a rather random order:

• When my shoelaces are uneven
• When I find a single sock after doing laundry
• When I keep getting Doomfist (I'm so bad with him) in Mystery Heroes in Overwatch 2
• People who are rude & toxic in Overwatch 2 (and other online games)
  
• How difficult it is to cancel auto-renewal subscriptions
• Cat dandruff getting stuck to my clothes
• When iTunes decides to give an album in my library 5 gray stars out of nowhere
  
• When a pen doesn't write well, but still writes so it's difficult to justify throwing it away
• When someone walking toward me on the sidewalk doesn't walk on their right side (barring exceptions like snow, pushing a stroller etc.)
• When I buy medical cannabis online and it has a package date more than 8 months old
• Shrinkflation (when the price of a product stays the same or goes up, but the quantity diminishes)
• Related to the above, skimpflation (when manufacturers cheap out on ingredients/components but the price doesn't go down)
• When my phone gets sluggish for no reason except age i.e. planned obsolescence
• When people at the grocery store leave their shopping cart in the middle of the aisle and obliviously create a traffic jam
• When another department at work is understaffed and it causes me more stress
• Loud pickleball noises, and pickleball courts that don't have enough space between the baseline and the wall
• When people pronounce "badminton" as "badmitten"
• When people meanly mock other folks' accents
• When I accidentally take my anti-reflect instead of my anti-fog glasses to work
• Mosquitoes and the rest of the pests (black flies, wasps etc.)
• That sheet music isn't de facto free & freely shared
• When my housemates leave their clothes in the washer/dryer on my laundry day
• Dog walkers letting their dogs unleashed in a specifically designated on-leash zone
• Dog walkers not picking up after their dog
• Forgetting really interesting knowledge learned during university cram days
  
• When I get a spot on a red seat on a bus, and someone just in front of me is taking up 2 blue (accessible) because of their backpack, and then someone who could really use a seat hops on
• Candles that don't burn well
• An otherwise quality product that doesn't need sugar that has sugar in the ingredient list (e.g. bacon)
• When people assume I'm Québécois when I consider myself Torontonian first and foremost (this is the most slight of annoyances on this list as of March 12th because yeah, I get why)
• Computer hardware that still works fine, but not well
  
• Motorized leaf blowers
  

Edit March 12th: added some more to this list

These few are definitely not "slightly" annoying and veer more on the "dangerously" annoying: